Water

"When you look at a watershed, especially in the southwest, you have all these tributaries and ephemeral streams connected like capillaries," said Gillespie. “And the Trump Rule broke us all because we are all downstream of these…

WASHINGTON - A federal judge on Monday overturned a Trump-era environmental rule that drastically restricted federal restrictions on polluting millions of streams, wetlands and swamps across the country.The Biden administration had already…

With climate change and prolonged drought continuing to weigh on the Colorado River, the federal government declared a water shortage for the first time on Monday at Lake Mead, one of the river's main reservoirs.The declaration triggers…

ORDBEND, Calif. - In America's fruit and nut basket today, water is the most precious harvest of all.It explains why a producer of premium sushi rice, amid a historic drought that dried up much of the American West, concluded that it makes…

Regularly testing waterways and reservoirs is a never-ending responsibility for utility companies and local safety authorities and generally involves - as you might expect - either a boat or at least waders. Nixie uses a drone to do…

The Cameron Peak Fire burned 208,000 acres, more than half of that in the Poudre watershed. Mr. Bowker and many others had spent the spring poring over maps, made by federal agencies from aerial photographs, showing the severity of the…

Sales of kayaks — along with other outdoor equipment like bikes and camping gear — spiked during the pandemic, so you may need to wait a few months for your boat.“People are rediscovering how great it is to get outside, even in their own…

After another dry winter that threatens to exacerbate water shortages across California, state officials have accused a water bottling company of draining too much water from forests in the San Bernardino area.Officials released a draft…

Japan said Tuesday it had decided to gradually dump tons of treated wastewater from the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the ocean, calling it the best option for disposal, despite fierce opposition from domestic fishing…

"This means that Mars has been dry for a long time," said Eva Scheller, a Caltech PhD student who was the lead author of the science paper.Today there is still water equivalent to a global ocean 65 to 130 feet deep, but that is mostly…